Résultats pour "Kurt" dans Thrillers et romans à suspense

When Kurt Wallander first appeared in Faceless Killers back in 1990, he was a senior police officer, just turned forty, with his life in a mess. His wife had left him, his father barely acknowledged him; he ate badly and drank alone at night. The Pyramid chronicles the events that led him to...

In an African convent, four nuns and an unidentified fifth woman are brutally murdered, and the death of the unknown woman is covered up by the local police. A year later in Sweden, Inspector Kurt Wallander is baffled and appalled by two strange murders with an elusive connection to the fifth woman.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of The Fifth Woman by Henning Mankell, read by Sean Barrett. Four nuns and a fifth woman are killed in a savage night-time attack in Africa. A year later, Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher and discovers a...

Throughout her childhood in Texas, Charlene Wilber only wanted to find true love and make her daddy proud. Oh, and to grow up to be adored by audiences in cineplexes all over the world, just like her idol Marilyn. In Hollywood, Charlene thinks she’s found true love and the answer to all her prayers in Kurtis Jackman, the flashy movie producer who promises to make her a star.

Being a badass growing up had been fine for a while, but Kurt knew his life had to change. His best option? The US Navy. Fourteen years later a serendipitous request from Badger to check out reports of a missing War Dog hidden in the bushes and attacking people sends Kurt to the very place he couldn’t wait to get out of. When Kurt chose the navy over Laurie Ann so long ago, he left her with a gift she’d fought long and hard to keep. Plus she didn’t give up on her dream of becoming a doctor.

The execution-style murder of a Swedish housewife looks like a simple case, except that there is no obvious suspect. Wallander follows a lead on a determined stalker. But when his alibi turns out to be airtight, Wallander begins to realize that what seemed a simple crime of passion is actually far more complex and dangerous. Eventually, his search uncovers an assassination plot, and Wallander soon finds himself in a tangle with the secret police and with a ruthless foreign agent.

One frozen January morning at 5am, Inspector Wallander responds to what he believes is a routine call out. When he reaches the isolated farmhouse he discovers a bloodbath. An old man has been tortured and beaten to death, his wife lies barely alive beside his shattered body, both victims of a violence beyond reason. Wallander's life is a shambles. His wife has left him, his daughter refuses to speak to him, and even his ageing father barely tolerates him.

When an officer's murder in Biscayne National Park threatens to expose a corrupt agency, one man is tasked with finding the killer, but he’s running into a wall of organizational conspiracy built to conceal a devious plot. Special Agent Kurt Hunter is fighting to find the truth hidden behind a maze of twisted coworkers and interagency tensions. From the glamorous Intracoastal Waterway of Miami to the natural beauty of Biscayne National Park, this new mystery from best-selling author Steven Becker reveals the good, the bad, and the ugly of South Florida.

Four years ago, sixteen-year-old Nina Vale vanished from Hollowmere Institute, a psychiatric facility that shut its doors days later and sealed its basement behind steel. Officially, Nina ran away. Unofficially, no one has ever been able to explain what really happened inside Hollowmere. When investigator Alex Haven is approached about a psychiatric patient claiming she hears Nina screaming from inside the abandoned building, the story sounds impossible. The facility has been condemned for years. The basement is sealed. And the girl everyone remembers disappeared without a trace.

While tracking a demented serial killer, Detective Kurt Wallander is beset with obstacles: a department distracted by the threat of cutbacks and the frivolity of World Cup soccer, a tenuous relationship with a widow, and an unshakably haunting preoccupation with a girl who set herself on fire.

Just graduated from the police academy, Linda Wallander returns to Skane to join the police force, and she already shows all the hallmarks of her father - the maverick approach, the flaring temper. Before she even starts work she becomes embroiled in the case of her childhood friend, Anna, who has inexplicably disappeared.

Kurt Wallander im Kampf gegen die Apartheid: Eine schwedische Immobilienmaklerin wird gesucht, ein abgerissener Finger gefunden. Ein Haus explodiert und ein Profikiller ist auf der Flucht - kurz: Die Ereignisse überschlagen sich...

Eigentlich sucht Kommissar Wallander nur ein gemütliches Haus am Meer als Rückzugsort. Doch schon bei der ersten Hausbesichtigung findet er im Garten die Überreste einer Frauenleiche. Und es bleibt nicht bei dieser einen.

One ride. One secret. One mistake that puts him in the crosshairs. Ethan Cole is a rideshare driver still grieving his wife’s death when he picks up a terrified passenger on a rainy night. She isn’t just running from someone—she’s carrying evidence tied to a hidden conspiracy and to the accident that killed Ethan’s wife. When the passenger vanishes and leaves behind a flash drive, Ethan becomes the next target. Hunted by a man who erases people through staged accidents and buried paperwork, Ethan is forced to uncover the truth his wife died protecting.

Deep beneath the ice of the Arctic Circle, something has awakened. A primordial creature frozen in time, it is the oldest, largest, most efficient predator that nature has ever produced. And it is ravenously hungry.... Thirty-five miles off the Massachusetts coast, a small research ship is attacked. All but one of its crew is killed by the massive serpentine horror that rises from the sea. The creature likes this human prey. The chewy outer hide. The tender saltiness within. And it wants more....

Den schrecklichen Überfall auf das alte Bauernehepaar werden die Menschen im südschwedischen Schonen nie vergessen: Eines Nachts hält ein Auto vor einem einsam gelegenen Gehöft, Männer schleichen zum Haus, fesseln die Eheleute und ermorden sie brutal. Dann fliehen sie mit ein paar Kronen Bargeld. "Ausländer, Ausländer!" - die letzten Worte der sterbenden Frau - lösen eine Welle der Gewalt gegen Ausländer in Schonen aus...

A group of intergenerational secret society sadistic pedophiles targets and brutalizes poor young boys in a rigidly conservative southern rural, small-town community. Five victims endure horrific childhoods and become close friends, and all but Eddie grow into men. Two things are in common with the survivors: they want revenge against their abusers and to avenge the death of Eddie.

With a serial killer on the loose in Dallas, Texas, former US Marshal turned FBI agent Sommer Potts is assigned the case. Can she find out who he is and catch him before it's too late or will she become The Artist's next Masterpiece?

When a rogue vampire wreaks havoc through a small town in New Mexico, leaving dead bodies in his wake; the only exception being his final three victims, who have not yet succumbed to their injuries, he finds himself coming face to face with the oldest vampire still walking the mortal plane and is found wanting. Now, Aiden Gallagher faces a moral dilemma, save the three young women the rogue vampire has left for dead by turning them himself or allow them to die from their wounds. Choosing the only true option he has; Aiden creates his first progeny is centuries.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post San Francisco Chronicle In True Believers, Kurt Andersen—the New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author of Heyday and Turn of the Century—delivers his most powerful and moving novel yet. Dazzling in its wit...